Ezra Levant Tommy Robinson UK

(LIVE UPDATE FROM EZRA’S TWITTER FEED) 2nd Day of Tommy Robinson Court Case against Cambridge Police Dept. over wrongful eviction from public space…….


 

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1m
Cobbett is done.
Court is adjourned until 10:30 a.m. tomorrow morning.

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2m
Gurden: don’t you think you should have provided your input on whether an s. 35 should have been issued?
Cobbett: only if I was asked.

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3m
Gurden: according to Cobbett’s statement, Tommy kept asking why he had to leave.
Cobbett: we didn’t want to undermine the sergeant, so we didn’t “interfere” with another decision.

 

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4m
Gurden asks: are you saying that — because of who he is and what he believes — he ought to be removed?

Mr. Clemens objects.

 

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Gurden: was it “necessary” for him to be dispersed?
Cobbett: “I believe it was necessary to remove him; it would have been safer for him and for everyone else if he had been removed”

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1m
Despite his written statement, Cobbett now says: “I believe he is a focal point of disorder.”

 

“During a football match, football supporters aren’t the brightest bulbs on the tree”. — Officer Cobbett of
@CambsCops

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54s
Cobbett’s written statement: I do not believe he was in the pub to cause public disorder.

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1m
I think that’s a powerful point, that will surely be buttressed by PC Mason’s testimony: the Luton cops, who know Tommy best, said he was not a risk.

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1m
Cobbett: “I had no reason to engage with Tommy Robinson”. He was told by Officer Mason of Luton that Tommy was no risk.

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45s
Cobbett followed the Luton “risk” group. Gurden confirms Tommy wasn’t amongst that group.

 

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56s
Cobbett refers to people as “risk”; a noun.

“You escort the risk away”.

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1m
Cobbett: we’re dealing with two sets of fans. We try to keep the fans separate. I was with a Luton cop (a spotter). I’d identify the Cambridge risk; he’d identify the Luton risk. We’d try to keep the team’s supporters separate.

 

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1m
Cobbett: I was ore concerned with the 4-5 identified risks
Gurden: the ones who left beforehand?
Cobbett: they took some cajoling to get moving
Gurden: before Tommy?
Cobbett: I don’t know
Gurden: s. 35 notices?
Cobbett: I don’t know.

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2m
Gurden: did you think Tommy had been served a s. 35 notice?
Cobbett: I was unsure
Gurden: you were aware he was being told to leave the pub
Cobbett: yes
Gurden: did you know he wanted to stay till the end of the match on TV?
Cobbett: no.

 

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Video sounds like Cobbett referring to a “section 35 notice being served by our bosses”.

He says bosses again.

He is not the only police officer to refer to bosses making the decision.

 

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1m
Gurden is asking Cobbett how he communicates — minutiae of how he uses his radio.

 

Gurden: did you go upstairs at all? (where Tommy was)
Cobbett: no.

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1m
Gurden is asking Cobbett to identify various police in the video footage.

 

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1m
Gurden: were you in the footage?
Cobbett: yes, I was downstairs near the main entrance of the pub
(Video now being shown)

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1m
Gurden: did you talk to the Luton cops about who their risks were?
Cobbett: yes, including from Police Constable Mason

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2m
Gurden: did you interact with Luton police spotters?
Cobbett: yes, including officer Mason
Gurden: have you seen the footage today?
Cobbett: i’ve seen what was shown today

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Gurden: what was your role that day?
Cobbett: Football intelligence officer, generally with Cambridge “risk”. When the groups are likely to become disorderly, to identify that to police “spotters” from other football teams.

 

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49s
Clemens takes Cobbett to his official statement.

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1m
Clemens (lawyer the
@CambsCops
) call another cop, Lee Cobbett I think is his name.

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1m
The judge tells the public that she has spoken to the press. She emphasizes that reporting has to be accurate and fair, so the wider public can know what’s happening. So she’s pro-tweeting — but she doesn’t want it to interfere.

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3m
The judge reminds everyone to turn their phone ringers off.

 

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3m
Gurden emphasizes that any Tweeters are doing so on their own behalf, not on his behalf.

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3m
The judge is back in. Gurden speaks. She announces that a Luton policeman, named Mason, is in the court. He will be back in court tomorrow morning to testify. It sounds like he will be testifying on Tommy’s behalf.

 

Ezra Levant 🍁
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5m

But enough about me — from now on, it’ll be just stenography. But now you know why.

If you’re a Canadian and an American, rejoice in your freedom of speech. And keep it.

And if you’re a Brit, think about what you have lost.

Ezra Levant 🍁
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5m
I can see why someone as stubborn and as free as Tommy would fall afoul of these laws. (Or as we now know from the court of appeal, he was not actually imprisoned in a lawful manner.) But interpretations can be vague and subjective. That’s not why I’m here.

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7m
I say again: the judge has not ordered me to do anything; the judge has not even asked me to do anything. Her answers to my questions were slightly cryptic. But out of an abundance of caution, I’ll just stop opining, at least until her verdict is in.

 

So I will submit. And for the remainder of this trial, I will report as a stenographer would do — bloodlessly. No commentary, no view. That is not how I’m built, but I’m in the judge’s house, in a foreign land. That seems just a little bit more foreign to me today.

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2m
I note Tommy was imprisoned for 10 weeks for reporting — with colourful commentary — outside a court in Leeds last May. I don’t need to be another test case in that. But it is certainly something that the UK — the media, lawyers, judges and mostly citizens — should address.

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But I am not here to reform the UK’s approach to journalism and justice. That’s not my job, and I’m not equipped to do it. And I’m certainly not here to get into quarrels with judges, or to interfere with their proceedings — however they interpret that.

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4m
I am here because I believe in justice and the hope it will come from this trial. I’m here because I know the BBC, Sky News, the tabloids, etc. will not cover this trial fairly. I’m here because Tommy’s a friend. And I’m here because hundreds of viewers crowdfunded me to be here.

 

I was deferential (as I truly am — this is her court, and this is Tommy’s lawsuit. I am not a party; I have no standing here). But I respectfully made the point that opinion journalism is a species of journalism. I didn’t want to belabour the point, so I submitted.

Ezra Levant 🍁
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1m
I asked the judge to clarify if her suggestion applied only to my tweets from the court, or other comments outside the court, or even my commentaries after the court case itself was done. Her advice was to refrain from political commentary until after the judgement was issued.

 

I asked if there were any tweets I had done that she wanted me to delete; she declined. I asked for advice on tweets going forward. She suggested not giving my opinion or commentary on the proceedings, but just reporting it, more in the style of a stenographer (my word).

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3m
The judge addressed live-tweeting (and obviously mine). The judge and I went back and forth on the subject, and I told her I have no wish to have a quarrel with her or the court, nor for the matter to be raised again — and that I would abide whatever her directions were.

Ezra Levant 🍁
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5m
Just a word about the matters where the public was asked to leave the courtroom. The judge confirmed that the remaining people in the room were parties, council or “accredited media”. (Of course in Canada, we don’t have media accreditation.)

 

Trial Resumes  (Begining in the above)

Now get this, even if Tommy had sent a request within the 28 day period, it would have been erased prior to that anyways. Who are these people trying to fool?

 

 

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